A
cityscape is the urban equivalent of a
landscape.
Townscape is roughly synonymous with
cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words
city and
town. In
urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and interstitial space. In the
visual arts a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a
painting,
drawing,
print or
photograph, of the physical aspects of a
city or urban area.